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A woman was arrested Sunday in Louisiana after she was found driving a stolen Dallas Fire-Rescue ambulance, officials said. The ambulance was reported stolen from a station in East Dallas around 4:17 p.m., according to DFR spokesman Jason Evans. The discovery was made after the vehicle was assigned to a 911 call, and medics noticed it was missing when they …

Denton police shot and killed a man armed with a cleaver and frying pan after he confronted officers and stabbed one of them at an apartment complex Tuesday morning, police said. The shooting happened around 3 a.m. in the 200 block of Inman Street, police said, after several apartment residents reported a man banging on doors and shattering light fixtures. …

The 23-year-old man accused in a mass shooting at a party outside Greenville last month was released from jail Tuesday after officials said they’d found evidence likely to clear him of the crime. The Hunt County Sheriff’s Office recommended that the county’s district attorney drop the case against Brandon Ray Gonzales, who had been held on $1 million bail since …

A 24-year-old man is accused of intentionally starting a fire at a northeast Harris County apartment complex that displaced dozens of people after he and his girlfriend got into a fight, officials said. James London has been charged with arson for his involvement in the massive blaze at Haverstock Hills Friday that left about 50 people without a home, according …

Illinois officials said Friday that a person who had recently used an e-cigarette and was hospitalized with severe lung illness had died. The death appears to be the first among a spate of mysterious lung illnesses now under investigation by state and federal health officials in connection to vaping – at least 193 cases in 22 states, many in teens …

A Harris County Sheriff’s deputy shot a man early Saturday morning in northwest Houston after the man reached for a handgun, officials said. The incident at an apartment complex parking lot in the Greater Inwood area came after a sheriff’s sergeant and two deputies spotted a car they believed was involved in a robbery earlier that evening. Several people standing …

A woman died early Friday in a house fire in Lexington Woods subdivision in Spring, according to the Spring Fire Department. Deputies from the Harris County Constable’s Office first responded to a burglary alarm at the home around 3 a.m. in the 25500 block of Friar Lake Lane. Deputies entered the home but were driven back by the smoke and …

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – After an unremarkable career spent tending the water and sewer systems beneath this city of 450,000 residents, DeWayne Craddock quit on Friday morning. The engineer for Virginia Beach’s municipal government informed his bosses in an email that he was resigning, city officials said. But Craddock made one last visit to the drab brick building where he …